Example sentences of "by [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By accumulating the expected numbers of cases of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma below age 15 we then created three categories with ( as far as possible ) similar expected numbers . |
| 2 | Second , flows would be changed by downgrading the western section of the ring road , with through traffic passing through the area via the eastern leg only . |
| 3 | But in his first public comments after the March 18th triumph the chancellor carefully began by praising the western allies , especially America , for making a united , democratic Germany possible . |
| 4 | Some grasshoppers produce their whirring trills by sawing the notched edge of their hind legs against a prominent strengthened vein of the wing . |
| 5 | ENGLAND 'S players will be denied the chance of pumping themselves up by singing the national anthem on the pitch before Saturday 's Test against South Africa at Twickenham . |
| 6 | Indeed , by channelling the perceptual cycle and , in so doing also slowing down the looking process , grid technique extends the period of appraisal in a way that counters those rapid and dismissive habits associated with functional looking . |
| 7 | Hence the government faced a dilemma , which it resolved by breaching the strict insurance principles and extending the scope of the unemployment benefit scheme . |
| 8 | It is wrong to deal with the needs of the poor by encouraging the general population to a wasteful use of energy supplied at a price too low in relation to its present environmental costs and the detriment of our descendants from the rapid exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves . |
| 9 | By encouraging the private builder to build houses at low cost to be let or sold , houses were provided at the least cost to the community . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend will know that the Government have proposed a major new initiative in rail freight by encouraging the private sector to run additional services on British Rail track . |
| 11 | The procedure is thus controlled by encouraging the rapid exchange of ideas and responses during the early part of the process . |
| 12 | The BDDA played an important part in the fulfilment of the last objective by subsidising the Deaf Welfare Examination Board for many years . |
| 13 | There is a natural temptation to seek an answer from the horse 's mouth , so to speak , by submitting the controversial material to the Attorney for an indication of his attitude . |
| 14 | As William Hamilton , now at the University of Michigan , pointed out in the 1960s , a male can perpetuate its genes in the next generation , not only by fathering offspring himself , but also by assisting the reproductive efforts of near relations who share many of his genes . |
| 15 | By concentrating on the governments , banks and companies involved , and by assisting the tribal people , we can help to save the rainforests . |
| 16 | In direct supplies derived by rectifying the alternating mains , a low-pass C-R filter is often used to reduce the residual alternating component of the output to an acceptable low level . |
| 17 | Each of the 300 occupied a slightly different ecological niche : some living among the rocks inshore ; some in the depths ; all ( as many cichlids do ) holding their developing young in their mouths for protection ( ‘ mouth breeders ’ ) ; and some highly specialized types earning a living by sucking the young ones out of the mouths of brooding mothers . |
| 18 | The pronounced topside knuckle not only contains water ballast tanks , but also , by angling the top panel of the knuckle fairly sharply inboard , enables deck area and thus weight to be reduced . |
| 19 | Thus , a Bill which sought to bring shipbuilding and repairing under public control but which did so , so far as repairing is concerned , by naming the particular firms affected , would be a ‘ hybrid ’ Bill . |
| 20 | The state is then a complex ‘ institutional ensemble which functions to organise the hegemony within the power bloc of the dominant class by mobilising the active consent of the dominated . |
| 21 | The remainder are calculated by calibrating the theoretical model such that the parameters are consistent with equilibrium in the market in a given period . |
| 22 | He also promotes his staff according to merit , rather than by pursuing the traditional path of steady , age-linked advancement . |
| 23 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 24 | Once when Hugh Dalton , the local MP and a Cabinet Minister , was about to open a factory by snipping the red tape with a pair of ornamental scissors , my father stepped out of the crowd , took the scissors and demanded a house as a disabled ex-serviceman . |
| 25 | Franca explained that Alison had been quite overcome by seeing the familiar school scene and the dancer , some of whom were professionals whom she knew . |
| 26 | Dad was thrilled rotten , not by seeing the Royal couple but by getting one up on his son-in-law . |
| 27 | Bill Clinton , during and after his campaign , promised to find budget savings by shortening the average maturity ( currently five years and ten months ) of the national debt by selling more short-term paper and less long-term . |
| 28 | Prosecutors held the jury 's attention by spicing the six-week trial with sex . |
| 29 | The Easter Vigil is well served in all its variety by reception of the Readings in simple refrains , by acclaiming the risen Christ In Light , sharing in Easter Praise and truly greeting the dawn of the first Easter . |
| 30 | The larger mire , Thorne Waste , approached by surmounting the incongruous dereliction of Moor Ends Colliery , stretches out as far as the eye can see , an astonishing 6,000 acres of untamed wetland . |